Getting started with your first Wear OS in Android Studio
The Android OS is used worldwide, and one of the use cases is Wear OS (by wear, we mean smartwatches). This is good news for Android developers because this means more jobs. Furthermore, many applications now have to support Wear OS, such as Spotify, fitness tracking apps, heart monitoring apps, and more, which implies more use cases will arise, and companies will adopt building for Wear OS even if it’s only for notification purposes. Therefore, this chapter will explore how to get started.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will look into getting started with Wear OS and how to set up your virtual watch testing environment.
How to do it…
To create your first project on Wear OS in Jetpack Compose, follow these steps:
- First, create a new Android project in Android Studio and ensure you have the latest version of Android Studio and the Wear OS SDK installed.
- Then, following the procedure of...
